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Amani Nature Reserve

Nina R from Africa · CC BY 2.0

96% trees around it and 1,042 species recorded.

88Forestyas Score

ForestDense canopyWildFungiBirdsWildlife

  • trees within 3 km96%
  • wild within 10 km100%
  • species recorded1,042
  • Altitude911 m

The forest around

96% trees.

Read like the rings of a cut trunk: from the centre out, the land within 1, 3, 6 and 10 km, coloured by what covers it.

Trees 95%Shrubland 2%Grassland 2%Trees 92%Shrubland 5%Grassland 4%Trees 88%Shrubland 5%Grassland 6%Built-up 0%96%trees · 3 km

Trees, ring by ring

  • 0–1 km100%
  • 1–3 km95%
  • 3–6 km92%
  • 6–10 km88%

What covers the land (1–3 km)

  • Trees95%
  • Shrubland2%
  • Grassland2%
  • Built-up0%

ESA WorldCover 2021 (10 m, from Sentinel satellites), sampled every 120 m. A clearing, a road or a lake counts as what it is.

Who lives here

1,042 species recorded.

The plants, fungi, birds and mammals people have recorded here most often.

Allanblackia stuhlmannii
Allanblackia stuhlmanniiAllanblackia stuhlmannii36 recordsAdolf Engler · Public domain
Hatpins loquat
Hatpins loquatOxyanthus pyriformis22 recordsSAplants · CC BY-SA 4.0
Miconia crenata
Miconia crenataMiconia crenata22 recordsDamien Wallace · CC BY 4.0
Woolly senna
Woolly sennaSenna hirsuta21 recordsVinayaraj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Lantana
LantanaLantana camara18 recordsروتانا · CC BY 4.0
Spanish CedarVU
Spanish CedarCedrela odorata16 recordsForest & Kim Starr · CC BY 3.0
Buzzy lizzy
Buzzy lizzyImpatiens walleriana15 recordsThegreenj · CC BY-SA 3.0
Uvariodendron pycnophyllumUvariodendron pycnophyllum33 records
Solanum stipitatostellatumSolanum stipitatostellatum27 records
Annickia kummeraeAnnickia kummerae27 records
VU
Chassalia albifloraChassalia albiflora26 records
Uvariodendron usambarenseUvariodendron usambarense26 records

Open records within 5 km (GBIF, licensed for any use). Busy places are better recorded than remote ones.

In numbers

The forest, measured.

88out of 100

Our own rating, from open data only: tree cover (40 points), wildness (20), species recorded (30) and protection or heritage (10).

  • 96%Treesof the land within 3 km
  • 100%Wildno towns or farmland within 10 km
  • 1,042Speciesrecorded more than once within 5 km
  • 911 mAltitudeabove the sea

When to walk

Best for walking from June to August.

How good each month is for a walk: mild days and little rain make the bar taller.

  1. Jan31°21°76 mm
  2. Feb32°21°57 mm
  3. Mar30°22°118 mm
  4. Apr28°22°227 mm
  5. May27°20°185 mm
  6. Jun26°18°46 mm
  7. Jul26°18°34 mm
  8. Aug27°18°37 mm
  9. Sep28°19°46 mm
  10. Oct29°20°119 mm
  11. Nov29°21°147 mm
  12. Dec30°21°115 mm
  • Bar: walking comfort; the number on top is the average maximum.
  • Below: average minimum (NASA, 1991–2020).
  • Rain: monthly total.

The place

Amani Nature Reserve.

Forest reserve in Tanzania

Amani Nature Reserve is a forest in Tanzania, 911 m above the sea.

Seen from space, 96% of the land within 3 km is trees, and 100% of the land within 10 km has no towns or farmland.

1,042 species have been recorded around it: 581 plants, 97 fungi, 340 birds and 24 mammals.

The most recorded plants are: Allanblackia stuhlmannii, Hatpins loquat and Miconia crenata.

The best time to walk is from June to August.

Amani Forest, Tanzania (51531946360)
Nina R from Africa · CC BY 2.0

Get there and walk

Plan the visit

A guided walk, a bed nearby, a car.

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From above

The forest and its surroundings.

The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the place, with the trails, notable trees, picnic sites and huts that OpenStreetMap shows.

Amani Nature Reserve seen from above (Sentinel-2)
Seen from above: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 6 × 6 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Around, in OpenStreetMap

  • 1campsites within 10 km
  • 3places to stay within 10 kmZigi Guest House, Medical Research Center (NIMR) Guest House, Emau Hill Amani Forest Camp
  • marked trails within 5 km
  • named and notable trees within 6 km
  • picnic sites within 4 km
  • shelters and huts within 6 km
  • viewpoints within 5 km
  • visitor centres within 6 km
  • car parks within 3 km
  • restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.

Photographs

The forest, as people saw it.

Amani Forest Tanzania (51555474849)
Nina R from Africa · CC BY 2.0

Other forests nearby.

Amani Nature Reserve

Tanzania

  • 88Forestyas Score
  • 96%Trees
  • 100%Wild
  • 1,042Species

Ngezi Forest Reserve

Tanzania · 116 km

  • 61Forestyas Score
  • 42%Trees
  • 99%Wild
  • 183Species

See the guide

Sacred Mijikenda Kaya Forests

Kenya · 164 km

  • 73Forestyas Score
  • 61%Trees
  • 93%Wild
  • 141Species

See the guide

Where these figures come from

Name and typeWikidata (Q4739851) · CC0
Land coverESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 · © ESA WorldCover project / Copernicus Sentinel data · CC BY 4.0
Species31,926 open records within 5 km (GBIF, CC0 and CC BY 4.0 only)
See these recordsgbif.org
Names and photosWikidata (CC0); GBIF Backbone Taxonomy · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
AltitudeCopernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Temperature and rainNASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2)
What is around© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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